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How much would you sacrifice for true love? The second novel in Paullina Simons' stunning End of Forever trilogy continues the heartbreaking story of Julian and Josephine and a love that spans lifetimes. Julian has travelled from the heights of joy to the depths of despair and back again. Having found his love - twice - and lost her - twice, he is resolved to continue his search and find her in the past again. Perhaps this time he can save her.

When Julian meets Josephine, it's love at first sight. After a whirlwind courtship, he proposes and she accepts. Everything is wonderful - on the surface. Josephine is a girl with secrets.... Days before the wedding they have a huge argument, and before Julian can make things right, everything goes terribly, tragically wrong. Unable to let Josephine go, Julian digs into her past and discovers so much more than he ever bargained for.

Der 19-jährige Raimund verliebt sich in die 29-jährige Ehefrau seines Nachbarn und Skatkumpels Werner. Renate erwidert seine Gefühle und sieht in der Beziehung eine Chance, der Enge ihrer Ehe und des Dorfes zu entkommen. Eine ungleiche, aber erfüllte Liebe entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden, voller Heimlichkeiten, Lügen und der Angst vor dem großen Skandal. Trotzdem wagen sie den Schritt in eine gemeinsame Zukunft. Eine Hetzjagd beginnt, angeführt von Renates Mutter und unterstützt durch Raimunds Eltern, die alle Register ziehen, um die beiden auseinander zu bringen.

It’s 1953 and the nation’s favourite street is preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s coronation. As the street swoons over the beautiful young queen and her handsome Prince, tensions simmer beneath the surface. Can the street put their troubles behind them and make Coronation Day a celebration to remember?

Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction set in post-war Liverpool continues to move readers. Peggy Delaney was a Lancashire girl born and bred, beginning...

Heiress Ariana Theodosis wanted everything that Hollywood had to offer, took it all, and is now paying the price. When she inherits a hotel on the beautiful French Riviera, she hopes it’s a chance to start again. Elizabeth and Robert Chappell were Hollywood’s fiery English golden couple. Their legendary breakups and passionate make-ups were tabloid gold, but now they are headed for divorce. Will they say their last goodbyes by the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean?

‘A captivating tale …This novel is a delight’ THE TIMES ‘A terrific novel … It springs off the page’ DEBORAH MOGGACH 'Vividly engaging’ SUNDAY TIMES Chelsea, 1876 Struggling artist Jimmy Whistler is at war with his patron. Denied full payment, he and muse Maud Franklin face ruin...

An utterly original, thoughtful and deeply compelling novel for readers who loved ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’. In the heart of the Sonoma Valley, on the edge of a sun-drenched meadow, lies the idyllic community of Greengage – where the residents wear simple clothes, lead quiet lives and...

A hooker. A mistress. A murder. This town was built on sin. The town of Trinidad, Colorado was a tough place to be a woman in 1913. But it was the best place in the West to find one, if you had the cash. Honeyville, they used to call it. A murder throws Inez and Dora together – two women from...

BTB at her superb best. A sweeping saga set around the aristocratic Ingham family of Cavendon Hall and the Swanns who serve them, set on the eve of World War 1. Two entwined families: the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them One stately home: Cavendon Hall, a grand imposing house...

A delightful novella from the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of Substance Jake and Maggie, each fleeing a failed marriage, meet and fall in love, but their pasts throw up obstacles. Jake Cantrell is suave, charming and a brilliant electrical engineer saddened by the failure of his...

The new Liverpool-based World War Two saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart and Some Sunny Day is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is...

The new novel from the author of the much-loved Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels. The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of...

Danny gets a terrible start in life and runs away from his drunken father when he thrashes him to within an inch of his life. But life on the streets is no better, and he falls into the clutches of evil men, finding that being big and strong for his age is no protection from the people who want to do him harm. Help comes in the form of Constable Jones, who is determined to help out the children who need it, and new friends Ron and Cassie, who are also runaways. Can Danny’s dream of a loving home ever be a reality?

Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for a rich man. After a gruelling journey through the countryside, the two are eventually released - but the experience leaves Alba shaken and unable to readjust to normal life, or to give voice to her inner turmoil....

Caroline Trent ist schon zu lange in der Obhut irgendeines entfernten Verwandten gewesen. In weniger als fünfzig Tagen wird sie zwanzig und kann ihr Erbe antreten. So lange wollte sie warten. Doch als ihr Vormund sie mit seinem ungelenken Sohn vermählen will, reicht es ihr. Caroline setzt sich zur Wehr und flieht – direkt in die Arme von Blake Ravenscroft, der sie offenbar für eine Spionin hält. Natürlich ist das absurd. Und Caroline beschließt zu schweigen, solange der attraktive Agent der Krone ihr nicht glaubt.

A fierce and compelling vision of an American landscape and its history, and an unforgettable portrait of a fascinating family. In the Fall is an epic of three generations of a family, the dark secrets that blister at its core, and the forbidden transcendent love affairs that fuel the characters...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s classic poem, read by Diana Quick. Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning’s self-styled ‘novel in verse’, a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora. Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off...

Ein zauberhaftes, zweihundert Jahre altes Chateau, einsam in einem Wald Neuenglands gelegen, bietet Charles Waterston den Frieden, den er nach seiner gescheiterten Ehe sucht. Fasziniert vertieft sich Charles in die Lebens- und Liebesgeschichte von Sarah Ferguson und dem französischen Adligen Francois de Pellerin.

Elizabeth Hotchkiss arbeitet schon seit fünf Jahren als Gesellschafterin für Lady Danbury, und trotzdem wird es bald nicht mehr ausreichen, wenn sie ihrem Bruder ein Studium ermöglichen will. Es hilft nichts, erkennt Elizabeth, sie muss sich einen Ehemann suchen, damit ihre Geschwister eine Zukunft haben. Da entdeckt sie bei Lady Danbury das Buch »Wie heiratet man einen Marquis« und fasst einen Plan. Der neue Gutsverwalter Mr. Siddons scheint ihr ein gutes Übungsobjekt zu sein.